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CLIMATE scientists are to re-examine 150 years of global temperature records in an attempt to regain the public trust rocked by revelations about errors and withheld data.
The Met Office put forward the proposal, which was accepted, at a meeting of the World Meteorological Organisation this week.
In a document entitled Proposal For A New International Analysis Of Land Surface Air Temperature Data, the Met Office said: “We feel it is timely to propose an international effort to re-analyse surface temperature data in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organisation.” The new assessment would be independent and based on publicly available data that could be challenged by climate-change skeptics.
Met Office spokesman John Hammond said: “The assessment would bring together the best scientists from the top meteorological institutions around the world.”
And he said they would be using data collected worldwide, dating back as far as 1850.
Source: express.co.uk